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"Heroes on Deck," the new documentary about the surprisingly elaborate World War II naval training operations on Lake Michigan, got its start in the fact that the film's heroes often did not land on deck.

Framing this story of a little-known chapter of local military history is the recovery from the bottom of Lake Michigan of three vintage airplanes, mollusk-covered, rusty, sometimes in pieces and yet headed for restoration all the same. And those are just a few of the scores of naval aircraft that sunk to the lake bed during the time when Chicago's great lake was used to train pilots to take off from and land on aircraft carriers.

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